Lilith's Brood

The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski; Ph.D.; Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative; sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes; mourning the death of her family; when war destroys Earth. Centuries later; she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings; the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others; the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny; unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...